4 posts tagged “1967”
Our offices were sent this picture of Rick Walker and Thiery Curtis, taken in early June in Rangeley, Maine.
Both Rick and Thiery are members of the -- seemingly ageless -- 1967 class.
Mr. Walker reports that Thiery spent 28 years in the Air Force, retiring as a colonel. He now works for the forestry service in Washington D.C. and lives in Mason Neck, Virginia.
Thiery was visiting Mr. Walker with his wife, Torunn.
Our blog has received a request from the son of Scott Wilson, who attended the villa for a year -- 1967-68, as a junior. Please send his son, Jared -- or us -- any pictures or even memories you might have of Scott.
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Jared Wilson writes: My father attended Villa St Jean for one year in 1967 as a Junior. He passed away 12 years ago. I have recently been trying to put together a scrape book of his life and came accross this blog. I was wondering if any of you had any photos or stories worth sharing about him. Anything would be appreciated.
Editor's Note: Here is another installment of our irregular features, in which we catch up with citizens of the Villa nation. Previous entries have include bios of Steve Boom, Cyril Boschert, Tom Brew and Jhon Akers. Cliff, as you may recall, was a regular contributor to the Di Palma villastjean.com site, a member of the Sufferin' Kind and a tech wonker. He and his wife live in Los Altos, California, ground zero of Silicon Valley.
WORK I'm currently into includes…
Mobile Software Development: My main activity is as a contractor/developer of Microsoft Mobile software applications for Tablet PC & Pocket PC Phone Edition (coming mid 07, an Apple iPhone "nuker", the Wireless Broadband Enterprise-class i-mate Ultimate 7150 Pocket PC). A particular interest is running dashboard suites of virtual machines/lab instruments on PDAs using Labview for Windows Mobile & it's PDA Module.
Stock Trading: As a backup/alternate revenue resource, I'm getting started in online stock trading/investing using the software WizeTrade.
WORK PROJECTS include…
Appropriate Technology (AT) Startup/Non-Profit project: To better get the AT referenced on my Friends of African Outlet website into the hands of developing nation villagers, I'm looking at getting the necessary paperwork together (business plan, etc) to form a Startup or Non-Profit for funded rollout of village AT projects. The projects' aim is initially to make available online a suite of "Peace Corps type" libraries of AT & medical info for village needs, while later it may include village elder video conferencing. As my project utilizes both Google & Microsoft software about evenly, pitching to Venture Philanthropy groups like Google.org &/or Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are likely candidates. Right now the project is in the prototype development stage, but I have a "tour via screen shot" at Village Computer Remote Desktop Project.
AFTER HOURS I'm into…
Health: I'm working out 3-5 time a week on my home gym, currently trying out new equipment for integrated Cardio/Vascular Aerobic, Muscle Strength, Stretching & Flexibility, the all-in-1 Total Gym XL+Cyclo Trainer.
Robots : Right now we're in a "wait-&-see" mode for when Japanese Humanoid Robots become generally available, current favorites being Sony QRIO & Honda ASIMO.
Travels: Upcoming are some planned initial forays into the South Pacific/Oceania tropical island group regions, following the path of the Polynesian/Melanesian Voyages of Discovery, so initial candidate destinations are New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji...likely by following the itinerary of French travel film maker, retired rock star Antoine, as in his films “Once Upon an Island”, trailing his catamaran Banana Split along it’s own South Pacific voyage of discovery... ...(ulterior motive? why, of course to test out that ultralight island hopping ;) .
Flying: Ultralights of the Power Paraglider (PPG) & PPG Trike variety, ideally amphibious, are a main interest.
Music: I'm currently focused on developing music using Apple GarageBand software, playing a Technics Synthesizer & getting better at music theory by learning from the book "How to Play the Piano Despite Years of Lessons."
Science: I'm monitoring popular accounts of developments regards our understanding of the universe & reality, particularly quantum theory and superstring/unified field theory.
Philosophy/Religion: Searching for a practical, efficient & effective path to illumination/enlightenment that should be available to Everyman (or as Jung put it, "achieving active, dynamic contact with the Collective Unconsciousness"), I'm regularly exploring achieving altered states of consciousness by ancient (hence proven reliable) yoga-like techniques called Holotropic Breathing and Rhythmic Drumming/Chanting (the latter utilizes a physics phenomena "rhythmic entrainment" to force the brain to alter to different brain wave states when those frequencies are encountered for extended time periods outside.
R&R: Weekends often find me on a Northern California river bank, picnicking, tanning and swimming at favorite Swimming Holes.
Editor's note. Steve has surfaced after four decades on the lame, via Jim Kelly, class of 1969. Here's an update on Steve, cobbled together from fragments of e-mail.
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John Akers was my roommate in '67-68. We live on Bainbridge Island, Washington, a short ferry ride from Seattle. (We've) lot's of mountains and water with the added pleasure of lots of rain this year.
My sweetie of 12 years is Marge, and she helps research our old friends.
I'm waiting for my first granddaughter to enter the world. We are semi-retired. We have photographs on the classmate web site, most, I believe, under the Singapore-American School, where I spent my last high school year. Also Tehran. Had a great time at the Villa.
My old hometown is Bellevue, Wa. We were there since the mid-50s; a much smaller town then. I have been talking to Jim Kelly, Jhon Akers and Mary Bosworth. Also, I've been reading up on the Villa site. After all these years, it's just been insane.
Brian Lawler (class of 1968) lives on the island. It turns out that our kids went to school togather.
